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Mashup: Album Art Cloud

The Album Cloud is like a tag cloud but uses images instead of text. It takes your top played albums and sizes each cover based on the number of plays. It includes links to similar users and can be embedded in other sites.

Sometimes it takes a little human intervention to make semantic applications easier to build. The Guardian newspaper has augmented its Open Platform API with unique identifiers for bands and books. In turn, the company has simplified the process of creating a mashup that uses multiple sources to focus on a single work, which may help its content spread farther.

Crowd.fm is an easy-to-use platform created to promote events online. It's been described by its founder Tekin Suleyman as "an amazing platform for getting events listed with a single click." The company provides the Crowd.fm API to provide developers integration options.

The W3C CSSOM View Module API is a specification for APIs that provide methods for inspecting and manipulating the view of documents. These methods can get the position of element layout boxes, find...